The thesis empirically examined the implications of microfinance scaling up or sustainability on outreach in Nigeria. Basically, two methodologies were used namely, panel data econometric and survey methods. The panel ...

The utilisation of 3D digitisation and visualisation has grown considerably since 2008 and is becoming an increasingly useful tool for the digital documentation and metric analysis of archaeological artefacts and skeletal ...

Despite therapeutic advances, colorectal cancer still has a 45% mortality rate, and one of the most crucial problems is the development of acquired resistance to treatment with anticancer drugs.
Thus the aims of this ...

This thesis examines the character of Middle Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age (3600-1200 BC) funerary and ritual practices in Wales. This was based on the analysis of chronological (radiocarbon determinations and artefactual ...

During the late 1970s Ghana was described as a collapsed and failed state. In
contrast, today it is hailed internationally as beacon of democracy and stability
in West Africa. In light of Ghana’s drastic image change ...

Liberia emerged from 14 years of brutal civil conflict, demobilized and
“reintegrated” large numbers of ex-combatants, but there are still concerns
about ex-combatants’ re-engagement in violence. Yet, adequate knowledge
and ...

This research examines the impact of certain bank-specific variables on bank stability in Ghana, in the context of the existing regulatory structures. The thesis examines this issue along two main themes.
The first part ...

Due to widespread bank scandals and failures around the world, there has been renewed interest in the effect of corporate governance on bank performance. The majority of research concerning corporate governance and its ...

This thesis explores how research is implicated in the constitution of post-war
environments, and gives an account of being and becoming a researcher in
post-war Bosnia. My main contention is that when peace and ...

This thesis is focused on exploring marking and grading in higher education.
Using a phenomenological approach 26 interviews were undertaken with a
heterogeneous sample of health academics at four universities. The ...

This doctoral thesis aims to provide a comprehensive and historical analysis of foreign policy behaviour of the principal states involved in nuclear talks on North Korea known as the Six-Party Talks (SPT). Despite the ...

This research is the first systematic investigation of solid-state orientation as a novel method for controlling drug release from biodegradable polymers. The effect of various degrees of polymer orientation was studied ...

As a result of globalization, the concept of Corporate Social responsibility (CSR)
has become on the agendas of organizations over the past decade. The
organizations in Kuwait are no exception; they have been striving ...

End-gated and centre gated mouldings have been assessed with varying
thickness and sprue geometries for the centre gate. Alternative image analysis
techniques are used to measure the orientation and length of injection ...

Optimising the throughput performance for wireless networks is one of the
challenging tasks in the objectives of communication engineering, since wireless
channels are prone to errors due to path losses, random noise, ...